User:Paul August/List of Oceanids

List of Oceanids

To Do

• Redlinks?
• Rework notes
• Fix sorting problem?
• Add back alternate names?
• Add other geographical eponyms: e.g. Thraike, Libye?
• Remove/update Asterodia? see Campbell p. 219 (re lines 3.242-3 Apsytus' partents ...) [in folder]
• Search Beazley Archive for Oceanids with Persephone (LIMC Persephone 3-9)? See Fowler, p. 13

• Add Orphic names? See Gwrman wiki

Get

LIMC Persephone 3-9?

Look at

• Fowler pp. 13–18
• Names in German encyclopedia article: Gwrman wiki
• Fratantuono, p. 692: [Oceanids] "with whom the Nereids are often confused" (e.g. see Hyginus' list of Nereids: Hyginus, Fabulae Preface 8.)
• Bane, [1]
• West, pp. 259 ff.
• Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theogonis, p. 20
• Caldwell?
• Hard?
• Paul Weizsäcker: Okeaniden. In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 3,1, Leipzig 1902, Sp. 805–809 (Digitalisat).

s.v. Okeaniden p. 413

Named Oceanids

Hesiod's list

Theogony 349–361

Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, [350] and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, [355] Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso, [360] Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx

Hesiod

#	Name
1	Peitho
2	Admete
3	Ianthe
4	Electra
5	Doris
6	Prymno
7	Urania
8	Hippo
9	Clymene
10	Rhodea
11	Callirrhoe
12	Zeuxo
13	Clytie
14	Idyia
15	Pasithoe
16	Plexaura
17	Galaxaura
18	Dione
19	Melobosis
20	Thoe
21	Polydora
22	Cerceis
23	Pluto
24	Perseis
25	Ianeira
26	Acaste
27	Xanthe
28	Petraea
29	Menestho
30	Europa
31	Metis
32	Eurynome
33	Telesto
34	Chryseis
35	Asia
36	Calypso
37	Eudora
38	Tyche
39	Amphirho
40	Ocyrrhoe
41	Styx

Homeric Hymn's list

2.418–423

[Persephone:] All we were playing in a lovely meadow, Leucippe and Phaeno and Electra and Ianthe, Melita also and Iache with Rhodea and Callirhoe [420] and Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe, fair as a flower, Chryseis, Ianeira, Acaste and Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming Calypso; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura

Hom. H

#	Name	Hesiod
1	Leucippe
2	Phaeno
3	Electra	✓
4	Ianthe	✓
5	Melita
6	Iache
7	Rhodea	✓
8	Callirhoe	Callirrhoe
9	Melobosis	✓
10	Tyche	✓
11	Ocyrhoe	Ocyrrhoe
12	Chryseis	✓
13	Ianeira	✓
14	Acaste	✓
15	Admete	✓
16	Rhodope
17	Pluto	✓
18	Calypso	✓
19	Styx	✓
20	Urania	✓
21	Galaxaura	✓

Apollodorus's list and others

1.2.2

to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia, Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis;

1.9.23

While Jason puzzled how he could yoke the bulls, Medea conceived a passion for him; now she was a witch, daughter of Aeetes and Idyia, daughter of Ocean.

2.1.1

Melia, daughter of Ocean

2.5.10

Callirrhoe, daughter of Ocean.

3.8.1

Meliboea, daughter of Ocean

3.10.1

Pleione, daughter of Ocean

Apollodorus

#	Name	Where	Hesiod
1	Asia		✓
2	Styx		✓
3	Electra		✓
4	Doris		✓
5	Eurynome		✓
6	Amphitrite
7	Metis		✓
8	Idyia	1.9.23	✓
9	Melia	2.1.1
10	Callirrhoe	2.5.10	✓
11	Meliboea	3.8.1
12	Pleione	3.10.1

Hyginus's lists and others

Ocheanids

Fabulae

Theogony 6 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95)

From Ocean and Tethys came the Oceanids: Hestyaea Melite, Ianthe, Admete, Stilbo, Pasiphae, Polyxo, Eurynome, Euagoreis, Rhodope, Lyris, Clytia, <unintelligible>, Clitemneste, Mentis, Menippe, Argia.

138 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 146)

Philyra daughter of Ocean.

154 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 150)

Merope who, as we have been told , was an Oceanid.

156 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 150)

Persis daughter of Ocean. By Clymene daughter of Ocean

182 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 158)

The Daughters of Ocean

Ida, Amalthea, and Adrastea* were the daughters of Ocean

192 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 162)

Atlas and Pleione (or another Oceanid) had twelve daughters and a son, Hyas,

275.6 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 181)

The Nymph Ephyra daughter of Ocean founded Ephyra, which they later named Corinth.

Astronomica

2.21

Aethra, daughter of Ocean.

Hyginus

#	Name	Where
1	Hestyaea
2	Melite
3	Ianthe
4	Admete
5	Stilbo
6	Pasiphae
7	Polyxo
8	Eurynome
9	Euagoreis
10	Rhodope
11	Lyris
12	Clytia
13	<unintelligible>
14	Clitemneste
15	Mentis
16	Menippe
17	Argia
18	Philyra	138
19	Merope	154
20	Perse	156
21	Clymene	156
22	Ida	182
23	Amalthea	182
24	Adrastea	182
25	Pleione	192
26	Ephyra	275.6
27	Aethra	Astro.

Nerieds

Order as given

• Glauce
• Thalia
• Cymodoce
• Nesaea
• Spio
• Thoe
• Cymothoe
• Actaea
• Limnoria
• Melite
• Iaera
• Amphithoe
• Agave
• Doto
• Proto
• Pherusa
• Dynamene
• Dexamene
• Amphnome
• Callianassa
• Doris
• Panope
• Galatea
• Nemertes
• Apseudes
• Clymene
• Ianira
• Panopaea
• Ianassa
• Maera
• Orithyia
• Amathia
• Drymo
• Xantho
• Ligea
• Phyllodoce
• Cydippe
• Lycorias
• Cleio
• Beroe
• Ephyra
• Opis
• Asia
• Deiopea
• Arethusa
• Clymene [twice]
• Creneis
• Eurydice
• Leucothoe

Alphabetical Order

[^ = also the name of an Oceanid]

• Actaea
• Agave
• Amathia
• Amphinome
• Amphithoe
• Apseudes
• Arethusa
• Asia^
• Beroe^
• Callianassa
• Cydippe
• Cleio^
• Clymene^
• Clymene [twice]
• Creneis
• Cymodoce
• Cymothoe
• Deiopea
• Dexamene
• Doris^
• Doto
• Dynamene
• Drymo
• Ephyra^
• Eurydice
• Galatea
• Glauce
• Ianassa
• Ianira^
• Iaera
• Leucothoe
• Ligea
• Limnoria
• Lycorias
• Maera
• Melite^
• Nemertes
• Nesaea
• Opis
• Orithyia
• Panopaea
• Panope
• Pherusa
• Phyllodoce
• Proto
• Spio
• Thalia
• Thoe^
• Xantho

Asterodia: remove?

Current article on Asterodia says:

• Asterodia, a Caucasian nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Absyrtus by Aeetes.

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.241–243

Apsyrtus, son of Aeets, whom a Caucasin nymph, Asterodeia, bare before he made Eidyia his wedded wife, the longest daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.

Campbell p. 219

For Ap. [Apollonius of Rhodes] the mother [of Apsyrtus] was a local Orestiad, a Caucasian nymph by the name of Asterodeia, rather than a 'Nereid' (Soph. fr. 546), an apt mate for an individual boasting an Oceanid mother (343n.). ...

Sophocles, fr. 546

For they^a were not born of the same union, but he was the child of a Nereid ... lately ..., but her Eiduia, daughter of Ocean, bore some time before.

^a Medea and her brother Apsyrtus, both children of Aeetes, had different mothers.

Others to Add?

Chios

Fowler, p. 14

Hek fr.

Neaera

Hesychius of Alexandria s.v. Νέαιρα

Removed from old list as spurious

Names I removed from current list for which I can find no adequate sourcing:

Anchiroe

1. Bane p. 29 (see Amazon)

   [calls her an Oceanid, citing Bell p. 38; Larson, p. 96; Smith, p. 12]

   Bell, p. 38, lists 4 Anchiroe, none of which does he say are Oceanids

   Larson, p. 96 [No mention of Anchiroe on p. 96. Nurse of Zeus (ap Paus.) at Megalopolis, but not called an Oceanid at p. 153. An Anchiroe, mentioned on p. 308 n. 96 mentioned as one of the daughters of the Erasinos River (Ant. Lib. Met. 30), and an Anchiroe is metioned on p. 313 n. 167 as the daughter of the river Nile]

   Smith, Achi'roe

   (Ἀχιρόη), or according to Apollodorus (2.1.4) Anchinoe, which is perhaps a mistake for Anchiroe, was a daughter of Nilus, and the wife of Belus, by whom she became the mother of Aegyptus and Danaus. According to the scholiast on Lycophron (583 and 1161), Ares begot by her a son, Sithon, and according to Hegesippus (apud Steph. Byz. s. v. Παλλήνη), also two daughters, Pallenaea and Rhoetea, from whom two towns derived their names.

   Parada, p. 19 [Does not call her an Oceanid]

   Anchinoe. *Nilus [daughter of] ... Apd. 2.1.4, Nonnus ...

   Anchiroe. An Arcadian Nymph. ... Pau. 8.31.4

   Pausanias, 8.31.4

   Nymphs too are carved on the table: Neda carrying an infant Zeus, Anthracia, another Arcadian nymph, holding a torch, and Hagno with a water-pot in one hand and a bowl in the other. Anchirhoe and Myrtoessa carry water-pots, with what is meant to be water coming down from them.

Bolbe

I can find no adequate sourcing:

Bane, p. 63

...one of the named Oceanids. ...

Sources: Boswell, What Men or Gods Are These 58; Hesiod, Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theogonis, 20; Osborn, Romancing the Goddess 190-1

Osborn, p. 190, all pages

[Does not call her an Oceanid]

Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theogonis, p. 20

[No mention of Bolbe found]

See also

• Osborn, Emare p. 273
• Larson, Greek Heroine Cults p. 91
• Burkert, Homo Necans p. 209
• Larson, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore pp. 169, 170, 313

• Google search: Bolbe Olynthus

Lysithea

Bane "Lysithea " p. 222

...one of the named Oceanids ...

Sources: Boswell, What Men or Gods Are These 58, Hesiod, Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theogonis, 20; Trzaskoma, Anthology of Classical Myths, 18

Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theogonis, p. 20

[No mention of Lysithea found]

Trzaskoma, Anthology of Classical Myths, 18

[No mention of Lysithea found on p. 18, or index]

Joannes Lydus, De Mensibus 4.51

According to the poets, [there have been] five Dionysi:⁵² First, the son of Zeus and Lysithea; second, the son of Nilus, who ruled over Libya and Ethiopia and Arabia; third, the child of Cabirus, who ruled over Asia, from whom come the Cabirian initiation; fourth, the child of Zeus and Semele, for whom the mysteries of Orpheus were performed, and by whom wine was mingled; fifth, the son of Nisus and Thyone, who introduced the "Triennial Festival.

⁵² For this list, cf. de Natura Deorum 3.23 (58).

Blunck, p. 29

CLEMENT, RECOGNITIONS, 10.21

I shall now speak of his [Jupiter's] adulteries. ... Lysithea, the daughter of Evenus, of whom Helenus;

[See Clementine literature, Clemens Romanus]

Ozomene

See Hyginus Fab 14

"sixty younger Oceanids, attendants" of Artemis

1. Crocale – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
2. Hyale – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
3. Nephele – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis; not to be confused with Nephele, goddess of clouds
4. Phiale – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
5. Psekas – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis
6. Rhanis – one of the sixty younger Oceanids, attendants of Artemis

Callimachus, Hymn 3—To Artemis 13–14

And give me sixty daughters of Oceanus for my choir—all nine years old, all maidens yet ungirdled;

Stephens, p. 124

Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.163–172

After Diana entered with her nymphs,

she gave her javelin, quiver and her bow

to one accustomed to the care of arms;

she gave her mantle to another nymph

who stood near by her as she took it off;

two others loosed the sandals from her feet;

but Crocale, the daughter of Ismenus,

more skillful than her sisters, gathered up

the goddess' scattered tresses in a knot;—

her own were loosely wantoned on the breeze.

Then in their ample urns dipt up the wave

and poured it forth, the cloud-nymph Nephele,

the nymph of crystal pools called Hyale,

the rain-drop Rhanis, Psecas of the dews,

and Phyale the guardian of their urns.

Zeus' nurses

• Pausanias, 4.33.1, 8.31.4, 8.38.2–3, 8.47.3, never calls them Oceanids.
• Larson, pp. 152– 154, never calls them Oceanids.
• Parada, p. 129, does not list any as Oceanids.

1. Anthracia

   Bane, "Anthracia" p. 31, called an Ocheanid, cites: Bell, p. 44; Pausanias..

   Bell, p. 44 does not call her an Oceanid

   Parada, p. 21: describes the Anthracia in Paus. 8.31.4 as "An Arcadian Nymph"

2. Glauke

   Bane, "Glauke" p. 162, not called an Ocheanid

   Parada, p. 81: "Glauce 5. One of the nurses of Zeus ... Pau. 8.47.3"

3. Hagno

   Bane, "Hagno" p. 172, called an Ocheanid, cites: Larson, p. 153; Pausanias.

   Larson, p. 361: "Hagno, spring nymph, Arkadia, 153-154"

   Parada, p. 83: "Hagno. An Arcadian Nymph, nurse of Zeus."

4. Ithome

   Bane. "Ithome" p. 192, called an Ocheanid: Hesiod; Smith, Springs and Wells in reek and Roman Literature 96

   Smith, "Ithome", not called Oceanid

5. Myrtoessa

   Bane, "Myrtoessa" p. 241, called an Ocheanid, cites: Larson 153; Pausanias.

6. Nede

   Bane, "Neda" p. 245, not called an Ocheanid

   Parada, p. 124: "Neda. Nurse of Zeus, according to the Messenian account, and from whom the river takes his name. The eldest of the NYMPHS. Reared Zeus secretly. Pau.4.33.1., Pau.8.31.4., Pau.8.38.3., Cal.Ze.33.

   Grimal, p. 304: "Neda ... Rhea gave [the stream] the name of Neda in honour of the Nymph, the oldest of the daughters of Ocean after Styx and Philyra"

   Nisetich, p. 26 n. 45: "The Diegesis concludes with Rhea handing the newly born Zeus 'to Neda, one of the Oceanids, for carrying to Crete, that he might be reared in secret there' (Pf. ii, p. 41).

7. Oinoe

   Bane, p. 259, called an Ocheanid: ? [or Oenoe, Oeroe?]

   Parada, p. 130: "Oenoe 1. A Naiad. ... Arg. 1.623 ... Pau.8.47.3"

8. Phrixa

   Bane p. 274 called an Ocheanid: Larson 153, Pausanias, ... [?]

9. Theisoa

   Bane [?]

   Parada, p. 174: "Theisoa . One of the nurses of Zeus"

Possible new Articles

Camarina?

[also Kamarina]

Pindar, Olympian 5.1–4;

Daughter of Ocean, ... Camarina,

"Classical Journal" vol. 5, p. 291

According to the latter [Pindar's scholiasts?] Camarina was fabled to have been the daughter of Oceanus.

Bane, p. 197

Larson, p. 215

Barnett, West, p. 48

the nymph Kamarina, eponym of the city;

Clymene?

See Clymene (mythology):

Clymene, an Oceanid, wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius; other authors relate the same of her sister Asia. A less common genealogy makes Clymene the mother of Deucalion by Prometheus. The Oceanid Clymene is also given as the wife to King Merops of Ethiopia and, by Helios, mother of Phaëton and the Heliades.

Frazer, Apollodorus, 3.14.3 n. 2

The mother who bore him to the Sun is usually called Clymene （so Lucian, Tzetzes, Eustathius, Ovid, Hyginus, Lactantius Placidus, the Vatican mythographers, and Servius）; but the Scholiast on Hom. Od. xvii.208 calls her Rhode, daughter of Asopus. Clymene herself, the mother of Phaethon, is said to have been a daughter of Ocean and Tethys （Tzetzes, Chiliades iv.359; Ov. Met. 2.156） or of Iphys or Minyas （Eustathius）.

Gantz, pp. 31–32

By contrast, Euripides' lost Phaethon was ...

Hard

p. 44

The most notable of the illegitimate children of Helios was PHAETHON ('the Radiant'), who was born to him bt Klymene, the wife of Merops, king of the Ethiopians; this Kymene is said to have been a daughter of Okeanos like the wife of Helios (although she must obviously be distinguished from the Okeanid of that name who is the wife of Iapetos in the Theogony).¹³⁰ Although ...

Hard, p. 608

130 Eur. fr. 771 Nauk, Ov. Met. 1.750ff.

131 Hes. fr 311 (= Hyg. Fab. 154).

132 Ov. Met. 1.750-2.324, cf. Eur. Phaethon frr. Lucret. 5.396-405. Hyg. Fab. 154.

133 Hyg, Fab. 152A.

Daeira?

• Fowler p. 16
• Harding p. 183
• Robinson p. 122

Zeus' Nurses

Pausanias

4.33.1

On the ascent to the summit of Ithome, which is the Messenian acropolis, is a spring Clepsydra. It is a hopeless task, however zealously undertaken, to enumerate all the peoples who claim that Zeus was born and brought up among them. The Messenians have their share in the story for they too say that the god was brought up among them and that his nurses were Ithome and Neda, the river having received its name from the latter, while the former, Ithome, gave her name to the mountain. These nymphs are said to have bathed Zeus here, after he was stolen by the Curetes owing to the danger that threatened from his father, and it is said that it has its name from the Curetes' theft. Water is carried every day from the spring to the sanctuary of Zeus of Ithome.

8.31.4

Nymphs too are carved on the table: Neda carrying an infant Zeus, Anthracia, another Arcadian nymph, holding a torch, and Hagno with a water-pot in one hand and a bowl in the other. Anchirhoe and Myrtoessa carry water-pots, with what is meant to be water coming down from them.

8.38.2–3

[2] On the left of the sanctuary of the Mistress is Mount Lycaeus. Some Arcadians call it Olympus, and others Sacred Peak. On it, they say, Zeus was reared. There is a place on Mount Lycaeus called Cretea, on the left of the grove of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. The Arcadians claim that the Crete, where the Cretan story has it that Zeus was reared, was this place and not the island.

[3] The nymphs, by whom they say that Zeus was reared, they call Theisoa, Neda and Hagno.

8.47.3

Represented on the altar are Rhea and the nymph Oenoe holding the baby Zeus. On either side are four figures: on one, Glauce, Neda, Theisoa and Anthracia; on the other Ide [Ἴδη], Hagno, Alcinoe and Phrixa.

Callimachus

Hymn 1 33–36

Neda^a to carry within Cretan covert, that thou [Zeus] mightst be reared secretly: Neda, eldest of the nymphs who were about her bed, earliest birth after Styx^b and Philyra.^c

Parada, p. 185

ZEUS' NURSES

Adrastia 1, Aex, Alcinoe 1, Amalthea, Cynosura, Eupheme I, Glauce 5, Hagno, Helice 1, Ide 3, Ithome, Neda, Oenoe 1, Phrixa, Theisoa

Larson,

pp. 152– 154

p. 317

224. Amaltheia as a nymph or naiad: Ov. Fast 5.111=28; Hyg. Poet. astr. 2.13. As a Goat: Callim. Hymn 1.45-53; Apollod. Bibl. 1.16=7; ... Daughters of Melisseus: ...

p. 311 [For page number see Amazon]

137. Pherecydes 3 F 90. Hyg. Fab. 182 calls the nurses daughters of Okeanos or of Melisseus, and names them Idyia, Althaia, and Adrasta (with apparent influence from the Kretan versions). He further notes that these nymphs were called Dodonides and seems later to identify them with the Hyades; thus Hyg. Poet. astr. 2.21 says that the stars known as Hyades were formerly called Dodonites.

1. Anthracia

   Bane, "Anthracia" p. 31: [Does not say she is Ocheanid; cites Pausanias and Larson, p. 153]

   Parada, p. 21: describes the Anthracia in Paus. 8.31.4 as "An Arcadian Nymph"

2. Glauke

   Bane, "Glauke" p. 162: [does not say she is an Oceanid]

   Parada, p. 81: "Glauce 5. One of the nurses of Zeus ... Pau. 8.47.3"

3. Hagno

   Bane, "Hagno" p. 172: "Hagno was a NYMPH and one of the OCEANID;" [cites Larson, p. 153; Pausanias]

   Larson, p. 361: "Hagno, spring nymph, Arkadia, 153-154"

   Parada, p. 83: "Hagno. An Arcadian Nymph, nurse of Zeus."

4. Ithome

   Bane [Not called an Oceanid?]

5. Myrtoessa

   Bane [Called an Oceanid, cites Larson 153; Paus.]

6. Nede [rename Neda!]

   Bane, "Neda" p. 31: [does not say she is an Oceanid]

   Parada, p. 124: "Neda. Nurse of Zeus, according to the Messenian account, and from whom the river takes his name. The eldest of the NYMPHS. Reared Zeus secretly. Pau.4.33.1., Pau.8.31.4., Pau.8.38.3., Cal.Ze.33.

   Grimal, p. 304: "Neda ... Rhea gave [the stream] the name of Neda in honour of the Nymph, the oldest of the daughters of Ocean after Styx and Philyra"

   Nisetich, p. 26 n. 45: "The Diegesis concludes with Rhea handing the newly born Zeus 'to Neda, one of the Oceanids, for carrying to Crete, that he might be reared in secret there' (Pf. ii, p. 41).

7. Oinoe

   Bane: Called an Oceanid: [or Oenoe, Oeroe?]

   Parada, p. 130: "Oenoe 1. A Naiad. ... Arg. 1.623 ... Pau.8.47.3"

8. Phrixa

   Bane [Called an Oceanid]

   Parada, p. 148: "Phrixa, One of the Nurses of Zeus."

9. Theisoa

   Bane [?]

   Parada, p. 174: "Theisoa . One of the nurses of Zeus"

Larson:

Messenian tradition: Ithome (mountain) and Neda (river) (Paus 4.33.1)

Arcadian, Lykaion: Neda Theisoa, Hagno (spring) reared Zeus (Paus 8.38.2-3)

at Tegea (Arcadian?) Altar: Oinoe, Glauke, Neda, Theisoa, Anthrakia, Ide, Hagno, Alkinoe, Phrixa (Paus. 8.47.3)

at Megalopolis (Arcadian?): Table: Neda, Anthrakia, Hagno, Anchiroë, Myrtoessa (Paus 8.31.4)

Zeus' Nurses

Name
Adrastia	Parada: Ap.1.1.6, Cal.Ze.46
Aex	Parada: Hyg.Ast.2.13
Alkinoe	Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Parada
Amalthea	Parada
Anchirhoe (Puas) or Anchiroë (Larson)	Megalopolis (P. 8.31.4)
Anthrakia	Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Megalopolis (P. 8.31.4)
Cynosura	Parada
Eupheme	Parada
Glauke	Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Parada
Hagno	Lykaion (P. 8.38.2-3) Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Megalopolis (P. 8.31.4) Parada
Helice	Parada
Ida	Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Parada
Ithome	Messenia (P. 4.33.1) Parada
Myrtoessa	Megalopolis (P. 8.31.4)
Neda	Messenia (P. 4.33.1) Lykaion (P. 8.38.2-3) Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Megalopolis (P. 8.31.4) Parada
Oinoe	Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Parada
Phrixa	Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Parada
Theisoa	Lykaion (P. 8.38.2-3) Tegea (P. 8.47.3) Parada

Sources

Ancient

Homer

Odyssey

10.136–139

Circe, a dread goddess of human speech, own sister to Aeetes of baneful mind; and both are sprung from Helius, who gives light to mortals, and from Perse [Πέρσης], their mother, whom Oceanus begot. [140]

Iliad

18.47

Thereat she uttered a shrill cry, and the goddesses thronged about her, even all the daughters of Nereus that were in the deep of the sea. There were Glauce and Thaleia and Cymodoce, [40] Nesaea and Speio and Thoë and ox-eyed Halië, and Cymothoë and Actaeä and Limnoreia, and Melite and Iaera and Amphithoe and Agave, Doto and Proto and Pherousa and Dynamene, and Dexamene and Amphinone and Callianeira, [45] Doris and Pynope and glorious Galatea, Nemertes and Apseudes and Callianassa, [47] and there were Clymene and Ianeira and ...

20.7–9

There was no river that came not, save only Oceanus, nor any nymph, of all that haunt the fair copses, the springs that feed the rivers, and the grassy meadows.

21.195–197

deep-flowing Ocean, from whom all rivers flow and every sea, and all the springs and deep wells;

Hesiod

Theogony

132–138

But afterwards she [Gaia] lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, [135] Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.

337–370

And Tethys bore to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, [340] and Phasis, and Rhesus, and the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus, Granicus, and Aesepus, and holy Simois, and Peneus, and Hermus, and Caicus' fair stream, and great Sangarius, Ladon, Parthenius, [345] Euenus, Ardescus, and divine Scamander. Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters¹ who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping—to this charge Zeus appointed them—Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, [350] and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, [355] Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste, Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia and charming Calypso, [360] Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all. These are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and Tethys; but there are many besides. For there are three thousand neat-ankled daughters of Ocean who are dispersed far and wide, [365] and in every place alike serve the earth and the deep waters, children who are glorious among goddesses. And as many other rivers are there, babbling as they flow, sons of Ocean, whom queenly Tethys bare, but their names it is hard for a mortal man to tell, [370] but people know those by which they severally dwell.

¹Goettling notes that some of these nymphs derive their names from lands over which they preside, as Europa, Asia, Doris, Ianeira （“Lady of the Ionians”）, but that most are called after some quality which their streams possessed: thus Xanthe is the “Brown” or “Turbid,” Amphirho is the “Surrounding” river, Ianthe is “She who delights,” and Ocyrrhoe is the “Swift-flowing.”

956–962

And Perseis, the daughter of Ocean, bore to unwearying Helios Circe and Aeetes the king. And Aeetes, the son of Helios who shows light to men, [960] took to wife fair-cheeked Idyia, daughter of Ocean the perfect stream, by the will of the gods: and she was subject to him in love through golden Aphrodite and bore him neat-ankled Medea.

Homeric Hymn

2.5

[Persephone] was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus

2.418–423

[Persephone:] All we were playing in a lovely meadow, Leucippe and Phaeno and Electra and Ianthe, Melita also and Iache with Rhodea and Callirhoe [420] and Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe, fair as a flower, Chryseis, Ianeira, Acaste and Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming Calypso; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura

Eumelus of Corinth

fr. 1

Fowler

pp. 105– 106

apud Pausanias

2.1.1

Eumelus, the son of Amphilytus,¹ of the family called Bacchidae, who is said to have composed the epic poem, says in his Corinthian History （if indeed the history be his） that Ephyra, the daughter of Oceanus, dwelt first in this land;

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Ephyra wife of Epimetheus (Eumel. fr. 11);

Epimenides

fr. 7 Fowler [=FGrHist 457 F 5, Vorsokr. 3 B 6]

Fowler 2001

p. 96

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Styx (Epimen. fr. 7);

fr. 8 Fowler [=FGrHist 457 F 6a, Vorsokr. 3 B 7]

Fowler 2001

p. 96

Σειρῆνας ἐξ Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ Γῆς

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Seirenes, by Ge (Epimen. fr. 8, suppl.);

fr. 11 Fowler [=FGrHist 457 F 5]

p. 98

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Rhodos (Epimen. fr. 11)

Acusilaus

fr. 34 Fowler [= Diels, Vorsok. 33 ?] [= FGrH 2 F 34?]

Fowler 2001

p. 22

Ἡσιόνης τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ

Freeman

p. 17

33. (The mother of Deucalion was Hesione daughter of Ocean, and his father was Prometheus).

Hecataeus of Miletus

fr. 35A Fowler

Fowler 2001

p. 141

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Perseis (Hek. fr. 35A);

Pindar

Olympian 5.1–4

Daughter of Ocean, with a smiling heart receive the sweet bloom of lofty excellence and Olympian garlands, the gifts of Psaumis and of his mule car team with untiring feet. Psaumis who, exalting your city, Camarina, ...

fr. 52k 43 (Race, pp. 292, 293)

Melia, daughter of Oceanus

Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound

560 [Weir]

and won my sister Hesione to be your wedded wife.

560 [Somerstein]

when you wooed and won ⁶⁶

my sister Hesione ⁶⁷

⁶⁷[Chorus of Oceanids:] The wife of Prometheus (and mother of Deucalion, the Flood hero) is variously identified in various sources; the fifth-century mythographer Acusilaus of Argos (FGrH 2 F 34) names her as Hesione the Oceanid, as here. Hesione is not mentioned in Hesiod’s list of forty-one daughters of Oceanus.

Pherecydes of Athens

fr. 45 Fowler

Fowler 2001

p. 304

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Daeira, sister of Styx (Pher. fr. 45);

fr. 50 Fowler

Fowler 2001

p. 305

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Philyra, mother of Cheiron (Pher. fr. 50);

fr. 66 Fowler

Fowler 2001

p. 311

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Peitho, wife of Argos (Pher. fr. 66);

fr. 90c Fowler

Fowler 2001

p. 322

Αἴθρας τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

... Aithra, wife of Atlas (Pher. fr. 90c)

Andron of Halicarnassus

fr. 7 Fowler [= FGrHist 10 F 7]

Fowler 2001

p. 42

Fowler 2013

p. 13

Europe and Thraike, daughters of Okeanos by Parthenope, and Asia and Libye, daughters by Pompholyge (Andron fr. 7)

p. 15

The two mothers are ad hoc inventions: Pompholyge, a hapax, is a good watery word (cf. ...), and Parthenope, a good maidenly one (elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles).

Bouzek and Graninger

p. 12

Ocean married two women, Pompholyge and Parthenope, with whom he fathered four daughters, Asia and Libya with the one [Pompholyge], and Europe and Thraike with the other [Parthenope], after whom he says that the continents are named" (FGrHist 10 F 7).

Callimachus

Hymn 1—To Zeus

33–36

Neda^a to carry within Cretan covert, that thou [Zeus] mightst be reared secretly: Neda, eldest of the nymphs who were about her bed, earliest birth after Styx^b and Philyra.^c

46–49

the Dictaean Meliae,^a and Adrasteia^b laid thee [Zeus] to rest in a cradle of gold, and thou didst suck the rich teat of the she-goat Amaltheia,^c

Hymn 3—To Artemis

13–14

[Artemis:] And give me sixty daughters of Oceanus for my choir—all nine years old, all maidens yet ungirdled;

Hymn 4—To Delos

79–80

And the earth-born nymph Melia,^l

^l The Meliae or Ash-nymphs were of the same class as the Dryads or Hamadryads. The Melia referred to here was the sister of Ismenus.

Apollonius of Rhodes

Argonautica

1.503–504

Eurynome, daughter of Ocean

2.1239

Ocean's daughter, Philyra

3.241–244

Apsyrtus, son of Aeetes, whom a Caucasian nymph, Asterodeia, bare before he made Eidyia his wedded wife, the youngest daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.

Diodorus Siculus

5.55

55 1 The island which is called Rhodes was first inhabited by the people who were known as Telchines; these were children of Thalatta,13 as the mythical tradition tells us, and the myth relates that they, together with Capheira, the daughter of Oceanus, nurtured Poseidon, whom Rhea had committed as a babe to their care.

Virgil

Georgics

4.341–345

Clio, too,

And Beroe, sisters, ocean-children both,

Both zoned with gold and girt with dappled fell,

Ephyre and Opis, and from Asian meads

Deiopea, and, bow at length laid by,

Fleet-footed Arethusa. But in their midst

Fair Clymene was telling o'er the tale

• Parada, p. 129
• Clymene: Ziogas. p. 110
• Thomas, pp. 72–73
• Farrell, p. 105

Cicero

De Natura Deorum

3.48

[48] Quid deinde, Ino dea ducetur et Leukothea a Graecis, a nobis Matuta dicetur, cum sit Cadmi filia, Circe autem er Pasiphae et Aeeta e Perseide Oceani filia natae patre Sole in deorum numero non habebuntur?

(Rackham, pp. 332, 333)

What next? If Ino is to be deemed divine, under the title of Leucothea in Greece and Matura at Rome, because she is the daughter of Cadmus, are Circe and Pasiphaë and Aeetes, the children of Perseis the daughter of Oceanus by the Sun, to be not counted in the list of gods?

3.59

quarta Iove nata et Coryphe Oceani filia

(Rackham, pp. 342, 343)

The fourth [Minerva] is the daughter of Jupiter and Coryphe the daughter of Oceanus

Ovid

Fasti

5.81–84 (Frazer, [pp. 266, 267)

"Tethys, the Titaness, was wedded of old by Ocean, who encompasses the earth, far as it stretches, with his flowing waters. Their daughter Pleione, as report has it, was united to Atlas, who upholds the sky, and she gave birth to the Pleiades.^a

5.171 (Frazer, pp. 272, 273)

Aethra, of the stock of Ocean

Metamorphoses

2.156

Then Tethys, witless of her grandson's [Phaethon's] fate

[Phaethon is usually the son of Helios and Clymene see Apollodorus, n. 2]

Apollodorus

1.1.6

Enraged at this, Rhea repaired to Crete, when she was big with Zeus, and brought him forth in a cave of Dicte. She gave him to the Curetes and to the nymphs Adrastia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus, to nurse.

1.1.7

So these nymphs fed the child on the milk of Amalthea;

1.2.1

But when Zeus was full-grown, he took Metis, daughter of Ocean,

1.2.2

Now to the Titans were born offspring: to Ocean and Tethys were born Oceanids, to wit, Asia, Styx, Electra, Doris, Eurynome, Amphitrite, and Metis;

1.2.7

[7] To Nereus and Doris were born the Nereids,1 whose names are Cymothoe, Spio, Glauconome, Nausithoe, Halie, Erato, Sao, Amphitrite^, Eunice, Thetis, Eulimene, Agave, Eudore^, Doto, Pherusa, Galatea, Actaea, Pontomedusa, Hippothoe, Lysianassa, Cymo, Eione, Halimede, Plexaure^, Eucrante, Proto, Calypso^, Panope, Cranto, Neomeris, Hipponoe, Ianira^, Polynome, Autonoe, Melite^, Dione^, Nesaea, Dero, Evagore [Εὐαγόρη = Euagore], Psamathe, Eumolpe, Ione, Dynamene, Ceto^, and Limnoria.

1.3.1

by Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, he [Zeus] had the Graces, to wit, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia;4

1.4.5

Poseidon wedded Amphitrite, daughter of Ocean, and there were born to him Triton and Rhode, who was married to the Sun.

1.9.23

While Jason puzzled how he could yoke the bulls, Medea conceived a passion for him; now she was a witch, daughter of Aeetes and Idyia, daughter of Ocean.

2.1.1

Ocean and Tethys had a son Inachus, after whom a river in Argos is called Inachus.1 He and Melia, daughter of Ocean, had sons, Phoroneus, and Aegialeus.

2.5.10

This island was inhabited by Geryon, son of Chrysaor by Callirrhoe, daughter of Ocean.

2.7.5

Now Amalthea was a daughter of Haemonius, and she had a bull's horn, which, according to Pherecydes, had the power of supplying meat or drink in abundance, whatever one might wish.³

3.8.1

He had a son Lycaon² by Meliboea, daughter of Ocean or, as others say, by a nymph Cyllene;

3.10.1

Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia, to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.

Hyginus

Astronomica

2.13

But Parmeniscus say that a certain Melisseus was king in Crete, and to his daughters Jove was brought to nurse. Since they did not have milk, they furnished him a she-goat, Amalthea by name, who is said to have reared him. She often bore twin kids, and at the very time that Jove was brought to her to nurse, had borne a pair. And so because of the kindness of the mother, the kids, too were placed among the constellations. Cleostratus of Tenedos is said to have first pointed out these kids among the stars.

But Musaeus says Jove was nursed by Themis and the nymph Amalthea, to whom he was given by Ops, his mother. Now Amalthea had as a pet a certain goat which is said to have nursed Jove.

2.21

The Pleiades were so named, according to Musaeaus, because fifteen daughters were born to Atlas and Aethra, daughter of Ocean.

Fabulae

Theogony (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95)

[1] From Night and Darkness came ... Nemesis, ... and Styx;

[6] From Ocean and Tethys came the Oceanids: Hestyaea Melite, Ianthe, Admete, Stilbo, Pasiphae, Polyxo, Eurynome, Euagoreis, Rhodope, Lyris, Clytia, <unintelligible>, Clitemneste, Mentis, Menippe, Argia.

[8] From Nereus and Doris came fifty Nerieds: ... Melite, ... Doris, ... Ephyra, ... Asia, ... Clymene,

(Theoi)

From Nereus and Doris fifty Nereids: Glauce, Thalia, Cymodoce, Nesaea, Spio, Thoe, Cymothoe[a], Actaea, Limnoria, Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe, Agaue, Doto, Prot[h]o, Pherusa, Dynamene, Dexamene, Amphnome, Callianassa, Doris, Panope, Galat[h]ea, Nemertes, Apseudes, Clymene, Ianira, [Panopea], Ianassa, Maera, Orithyia, Amathia, Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce, Cydippe, Lycorias, Cleio, Beroe, Ephyre, Opis, Asia, Deiopea, Arethusa, [Clymene], Creneis, Eurydice, Leucothea.

138 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 146)

Philyra, Who Was Changed into a Linden Tree

As Saturn was combing the earth looking for Jupiter, he came to Trace, turned himself into a horse, and slept with Philyra daughter of Ocean. She gave birth to the Centaur Chiron, who is said to have been the first to discover the art of medicine. When she realized that she had given birth to a species never before seen, Philyra asked Jupiter to change her into some other form. She was changed into the philyra tree, that is, a linden tree.

(Theoi)

PHILYRA, WHO WAS TURNED INTO A LINDEN TREE

When Saturn was hunting Jove throughout the earth, assuming the form of a steed he lay with Philyra, daughter of Ocean. By him she bore Chiron the Centaur, who is said to have been the first to invent the art of healing. After Philyra saw that she had borne a strange species, she asked Jove to change her into another form, and she was transformed into the tree which is called the linden.

139 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 146)

Juno, meanwhile, brought Jupiter down to the island of Crete. Amalthea, the child's nurse,

(Theoi)

Juno, however, took Jove to the island of Crete, and Amalthea, the child’s nurse,

143 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 147)

Phoroneus

Inachus son of Ocean fathered Phoroneus by his own sister Argia.

154 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 150)

Hesiod's Phaethon

Phaethon was the son of Clymenus (son of Sun) and the nymph Merope who, as we have been told , was an Oceanid.

(Theoi)

PHAETHON OF HESIOD

Phaethon, son of Clymenus, son of Sol, and the nymph Merope, who, as we have heard was an Oceanid,

156 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 150)

<The Sun's Children>

Circe, Pasiphae, <Aeetes, and Perses>* by Persis daughter of Ocean. By Clymene daughter of Ocean: Phaethon, Lampetia, Aegle, Phoebe, <Merope, Helia, Aetheria, and Dioxippe>.*

(Theoi)

CHILDREN OF SOL

Circe by Persis, daughter of Ocean, and Pasiphae. By Clumene, daughter of Ocean, Phaethon, Lampetie, Aegle, Phoebe . . .

182 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 158)

The Daughters of Ocean

Ida, Amalthea, and Adrastea* were the daughters of Ocean. Others say they were the daughters of Melisseus and were Jupiters's nurses, the ones that are called Dodonian Nymphs (others call them the Naiads). < . . . > whose names are Cisseis, Nysa, Erato, Eriphia, Dromia, Polyhymno. On Mount Nysa their nursling⁶¹ bestowed upon them a gift: he asked Medea to take away their old age and turn them into yoiung women. Later they were given an exalted position among thew stars and called them Hyades. Others hand down that they were named Arsinoe, Ambrosia, Bromia, Cisseis, and Coronis.

(Theoi)

DAUGHTERS OF OCEAN

The daughters of Oceanus are Idothea [= Ida? see Smith and Trzaskoma, and West below], Althaea [= Amalthea? see Smith and Trzaskoma, and West below], and Adrasta, but others say they are daughters of Melisseus, and nurses of Jove. The nymphs which are called Dodonides (others call them Naides) . . . Their names are Cisseis, Nysa, Erato, Eriphia, Bromis, Polyhymno. On Mount Nysa these obtained a boon from their foster-son, who made petition to Medea. Putting off old age, they were changed to young girls, and later, consecrated among the stars, they are called Hyades. Others report that they were called Arsinoe, Ambrosie, Bromie, Cisseis, and Coronis.

Smith, p. 191 endnote to 182:

Adrastea: We read (suggested by RSS) Ida, Amalthea, Adrastea for Φ ideo et [F Idothea] Althaea, Adrasta (Marshall prints Idyia, Althaea, Adrasta), combining the two daughters of Melisseus (see Apollodorus 1.5) and Amalthea, who is listed as Jupiter's nurse at Fab. 139.

West, The Orphic Poems p. 133

in Hyg. Fab. 182.1 Melissus' daughters appear as Idothea Althaea Adrasta, who seem to correspond to Ida, Amalthea, and Adrastea.

192 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 162)

Hyas

Atlas and Pleione (or another Oceanid) had twelve daughters and a son, Hyas,

(Theoi:

HYAS

Atlas by Pleione or an Oceanid had twelve daughters, and a son, Hyas.

275.6 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 181)

The Nymph Ephyra daughter of Ocean founded Ephyra, which they later named Corinth.

Pausanias

1.33.3

[3] Of this marble Pheidias made a statue of Nemesis, and on the head of the goddess is a crown with deer and small images of Victory. In her left hand she holds an apple branch, in her right hand a cup on which are wrought Aethiopians. As to the Aethiopians, I could hazard no guess myself, nor could I accept the statement of those who are convinced that the Aethiopians have been carved upon the cup be cause of the river Ocean. For the Aethiopians, they say, dwell near it, and Ocean is the father of Nemesis.

1.38.7

The hero Eleusis, after whom the city is named, some assert to be a son of Hermes and of Daeira, daughter of Ocean

2.1.1

Eumelus, the son of Amphilytus,¹ of the family called Bacchidae, who is said to have composed the epic poem, says in his Corinthian History （if indeed the history be his） that Ephyra, the daughter of Oceanus, dwelt first in this land;

4.30.4

Homer is the first whom I know to have mentioned Fortune in his poems. He did so in the Hymn to Demeter, where he enumerates the daughters of Ocean, telling how they played with Kore the daughter of Demeter, and making Fortune one of them. The lines are:“We all in a lovely meadow, Leucippe, Phaeno, Electre and Ianthe, Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe with face like a flower.

8.18.2

Epimenides of Crete, also, represented Styx as the daughter of Ocean, not, however, as the wife of Pallas, but as bearing Echidna to Peiras, whoever Peiras may be.

9.10.5

Higher up than the Ismenian sanctuary you may see the fountain which they say is sacred to Ares, and they add that a dragon was posted by Ares as a sentry over the spring. By this fountain is the grave of Caanthus. They say that he was brother to Melia and son to Ocean, and that he was commissioned by his father to seek his sister, who had been carried away. Finding that Apollo had Melia, and being unable to get her from him, he dared to set fire to the precinct of Apollo that is now called the Ismenian sanctuary. The god, according to the Thebans, shot him.

9.10.6

Here then is the tomb of Caanthus. They say that Apollo had sons by Melia, to wit, Tenerus and Ismenus. To Tenerus Apollo gave the art of divination, and from Ismenus the river got its name. Not that the river was nameless before, if indeed it was called Ladon before Ismenus was born to Apollo.

Nonnus

Dionysiaca

26.355

Ceto, a Naiad daughter of Oceanus

41.153

Tethys, running side by side with Oceanos, who begat thee in his bed of many fountains—Beroë

48.248

Periboia, a daughter of Oceanos

Stephanus of Byzantium

s.v. Akragantes

Ἀστερὀπης τῆς Ὠχεανοῦ

s.v. Παλιχη

Αἴτνης τῆς Ὠχεανοῦ

[See Ellis, pp. l–li (below)]

Suda

s.v. Εὐφορίων [Euphorion]

Attica was previously called Mopsopia after Mopsopia the daughter of Okeanos,[8]

[8] Strabo (9.1.18, 9.5.22) and Stephanus of Byzantium say 'from Mopsopos'.

[Strabo 9.1.18, 9.5.22]

[See: p. 276, p. 403]

Euphorion of Chalcis

s.v. Ἱππεία Ἀθηνᾶ [Athena Hippia, Athena-of-Horses]

They say she is a daughter of Poseidon and Polyphe[1], daughter of Ocean; she was the first to use a chariot and was called "of-Horses" because of this.

[1] Other lexica give the name as Koryphe

[For Athena Hippia, see Burkert, p. 221]

Tzetzes

Chiliades

4.19.357–360 (Greek: Kiessling, p. 133; English translation: Berkowitz, p. 119)

Concerning the poplars of Phaethon, 4.19 (Story 137)

For Helios, diverse are both the wives and children:

From Perse, the daughter of Oceanus: both Aeetes nd Circe;

And of Clymene, daughter of Oceanus: Phaethon. But not this Phaethon;

And of Rhodos, the daughter of Poseidon: Cercaphus and Triopes; [360]

Scholion Homer

Schol. ad Hom. II. 21.194

Ἀμαλθείας τῆς Ὠχεανοῦ

Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica

3.242

Parisian

Ἀστροδίας τῆς Ὠχεανοῦ χαὶ Τιθὐος

Florentine

Ἀστροδείης τῆς Ὠχεανοῦ χαὶ Τηθὐος

Modern

Bouzek and Graninger

p. 12

Ocean married two women, Pompholyge and Parthenope, with whom he fathered four daughters, Asia and Libya with the one [Pompholyge], and Europe and Thraike with the other [Parthenope], after whom he says that the continents are named" (FGrHist 10 F 7).

Caldwell

p. 48

336 Hesiod now comes to the families of the Titans, beginning with the children of Okeanos and Tethys. The sons are rivers and the daughters are nymphs of springs.

p. 49

359 ... Kalypso is probably not the famous Kalypso of Odyssey 5, who is usually called the daughter of Atlas (Odyssey 1.52).

Conti

Conti, p. 478 n. 23

Some writers, including Epimenides, thought that Absyrtus was older than Medea, and that her mother was actually Asterodia of Caucasus, the daughter of Ocean and Tethys.²³

²³ FGrH 3B 457 fr. 11; Schol. in A.R. 242-44, ed. Wendel, 202.

[C. Wendel, ed. Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium Vetera, Berlin 1935, see [2]]

Ellis

pp. l–li

Steph. Byz. s.v. Παλική quotes a writer called Silenus as stating that Palicus' mother was Aetna, a daughter of Oceanus. Placidus on Stat. Theb. xii 156 calls her 'a nymph Aetna.'

Evelyn-White

note to Hes. Th. 346

Goettling notes that some of these nymphs derive their names from lands over which they preside, as Europa, Asia, Doris, Ianeira （“Lady of the Ionians”）, but that most are called after some quality which their streams possessed: thus Xanthe is the “Brown” or “Turbid,” Amphirho is the “Surrounding” river, Ianthe is “She who delights,” and Ocyrrhoe is the “Swift-flowing.”

Fowler 2001

p. 22

Acusilas fr. 34

Ἡσιόνης τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ

p. 42

Andron fr. 7 [= FGrHist 10 F 7]

p. 96

Epimenides fr. 7

Epimenides fr. 8

p. 98

Epimenides fr. 11

pp. 105– 106

Eumelus fr. 1 (apud Pausanias, 2.1.1)

p. 141

Hecataeus of Miletus fr. 35A

p. 304

Pherecydes fr. 45

p. 305

Pherecydes fr. 50

p. 311

Pherecydes fr. 66

p. 322

Pherecydes fr. 90c

Αἴθρας τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ

Fowler 2013

p. 13

§1.3.2 CHILDREN OF OKEANOS ...

The children of Okeanos mentioned in our corpus are mostly daughters:³⁸ Hesione, wife of Prometheus and mother of Deukalion (Akous. fr. 34); Europe and Thraike, daughters of Okeanos by Parthenope, and Asia and Libye, daughters by Pomphyolge (Andron fr. 7);Styx (Epimen. fr. 7); Seirenes by Ge (Epimen. fr. 8, suppl.); Rhodos (Epimen. fr. 11); Ephyra wife of Epimetheus (Eumel. fr. 11); Perseis (Hek. fr. 35A); Daeira, sister of Styx (Pher. fr. 45); Philyra, mother of Cheiron (Pher. fr. 50); Peitho, wife of Argos (Pher. fr. 66); Aithra, wife of Atlas (Pher. fr. 90c). ...

In archaic poetry (principally Hes. mTh. 337-70 and Hymn. Hom. Dem. 417-23) rivers are sons of Okeanos, springs are daughters. The names of the latter³⁸ therefore often suggest qualities associated with water; however because they are kourotrophoi (Th. 347), their names sometimes connote wealth, bounty, or desirable moral and intellectual qualities: e.g. Plouto, Tyche, Idyia, Metis, Melobosis, Peitho (if not rather an erotic association), Eurynome. Their generally benevolent and sympathetic nature is on display in Prometheus Bound, whose chorus they form, and in vase-painting, where they are companions of Persephone at her unfortunate abduction (LIMC nos. 3-9). 'Europe' and 'Asie' in Hesiod's catalogue do not conform to either of these types, and look,like geographical eponyms. West in his commnetary (on 357) is sceptical; ne notes [cont.]

³⁸ Weizsäcker in Roscher, Lex. s.v.; Deichgräber, Die Musen; West on Th. 337-70; Richardson on Hymn. Hom. Dem. 5.417-24; L. Kahil and N. Icard-Gianolio in LIMC s.v.

p. 14

Andron fr. 7, his genealogy of the continents, is also straightforwardly geographical, though his division of the world into four parts is idiosyncratic, adding Thrace to the more usual tripartite division of Europe, Asia and Libya ...

p. 15

The two mothers are ad hoc inventions: Pompholyge, a hapax, is a good watery word (cf. ...), and Parthenope, a good maidenly one (elsewhere variously a Siren, a daughter of Ankaios, and a paramour of Herakles).

p. 30

Epimen. fr. 8, if the supplement in l. 19 is correct,¹⁰⁹ made Okeanos and Earth the parents of the Seirens. Neither Homer nor Hesiod in his surviving fragments indicates [cont.]

p. 31

their parentage. Phorkys is father in Soph. fr. 861; otherwise Acheloos is favoured, either with Sterope daughter of Porthaon,¹¹⁰ a Muse,¹¹¹ or Earth, from the blood that spilled when Herakles broke off his horn.¹¹²

p. 113

Akousilaus' candidate [for Deukalion's mother] (Akous. fr. 34) is an Ockeanid Hesione, which might be taken as free invention did it not recur in PV (560); if the latter is not dependent on the former, one may speculate that their common source was the Titanomchy, which perhaps mentioned the flood (see below), and which has long been thought to lie behind the PV (->§1.5). Another possibility ...

Freeman

p. 17

33. (The mother of Deucalion was Hesione daughter of Ocean, and his father was Prometheus).

Hard

p. 41

Hesiod includes a Kalypso in the list, but it need not be assummed that he had the lover of Odysseus (see p. 497) in mind; although Odysseus' liaison is mentioned in the present texts of the Theogony, the reference comes at the very end of the poem in a section that was added after Hesiod's time.

Larson

BU online version

p. 7

The Okeanids are the daughters of the primordial river Okeanos and are hence an early generation of nymphs. Okeanids appear occasionally in myths (most notably as the companions of Persephone before her abduction), figure rarely in cult, and serve mainly as genealogical starting points.

p. 30

The Okeanids are primordial nymphs, daughters of the first and greatest river. In both myth and cult, nymphs regularly act as kourotrophoi, or protectors of the young. In the case of infants, they are imagined as nurses, while for older children and youths they (often in conjunction with the local river and Apollo) are protective, nurturing powers (3.1.3). In mythology, nymphs are the nurses of numerous divine and heroic infants, most notably Zeus himself, Dionysos, and Aineias. In another Hesiodic fragment (fr. 145.1– 2), Zeus entrusts a son, probably Minos, to the nymphs of Ide.

p. 156

Of the other nymphs of Arkadia, the most famous is Styx, eldest daughter of Okeanos and Tethys. Like the rivers Acheron and Kokytos, Styx has a dual identity as both an underworld and an earthy river. ... This is a fair description of the Arkadian Styx, which boasts a 600-foot waterfall.

Most

p. 31

²¹ Many of the names of the Oceanids reflect their roles as nymphs of fountains and groves and as protectoresses of youths.

Preston

Note to Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.330 "Asterodea" (p. 168)

Diophanes, in his History of Pontus, book i, says, that Antiope was the mother of Aeetes; and that Absyrtus was the brother to Medea, and the eldest child of Aeetes, by Asterodea, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.

West

1966

p. 259

337-70. ... The children of Oceanus and Tethys ... The male children are the rivers of the earth, ... the daughters are the nymphs of springs and groves, who are no less important. All rivers flow ultimately from Oceanus (Il. 21. 195-7; cf. Pi. fr. 326 ...), and all rivers are masculine and springs feminine.

p. 260

The catalogue of Oceanids resembles that of the Nereids in its general character, but the names are less persistently aquatic, and less often transparent. A few coincide; cf. on 241. Some recur in the list of Oceanids who picked flowers with Persephone in h. Dem. 418-24 (cf. 5): in this case we may admit direct borrowing, since Hesiodic influence in the hymn to Demeter is marked (cf. C. A. Trypanis, Ἀθηνᾶ, 1938, pp. 199-237).

Their importance as individuals is very unequal. Most of them have none, and may have been invented ad hoc; some may have been the names of actual springs, though we miss those most famous in myth such as Dirce, Arethusa, Artakie. A few as Mazon points out, reflect properties of their father, like a few of the Nereids (cf. on 240-64, 261-2, and 209). Others have no essential connection with water at all, but are names appropriate to fairy godmothers; for the nymphs' only function specified by Hesiod is care of the young. This is why we find dropped apparently at random in the list such significant but not eminently fontane goddesses as Peitho, Metis, Tyche—names which Hesiod can hardly have hit upon by chance, unaware of their meaning for others. He must have worked them in deliberately, but preferred not to interrupt the flow of names by annotations on individuals.

p. 263

346. κουρίξουσι ... The nymphs are κουροτρόφοι, like Hecate in 450 and ...

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